This enabled Google Talk users to interact with registered Orkut users, by sending and receiving "scraps" within Orkut. Google Talk Gadget is a web-based module that may be embedded in i Google and other web pages, allowing text chat with users of Google Talk.Learn more Designed for the way people work, Fuze powers business conversations through a secure and reliable global platform that unifies voice, video, and messaging into a single application. Learn more Fuze increases the efficiency of communication in combining a simple user experience, intelligent platform, and third party enterprise integrations to enrich every conversation, and drive workforce productivity.The Fuze platform unlocks data from multiple sources across the enterprise providing valuable insights to business leaders about the organization and its workers.Messages can be sent with or without first ringing the recipient's phone number.Google also provides a Voice and Video Chat browser plugin for Google Talk The plugin must be downloaded and installed, but otherwise seamlessly integrates into the Gmail interface.Google Talk used XMPP to provide real-time extensible messaging and presence events, including offline messaging and voice mailing.

Google Talk supported messaging with any service provider that supports the XMPP protocol.

In May 2013, Google announced its plan to drop support for the open XMPP standard in favor of proprietary Google Hangouts.

Basically you can say to goodbye to groupme & skype.

Signal your friends so they know it’s serious, and throw one of those parties you’ve seen in movies, from your phone. Whether it’s important, not that important, or a cat video (ok, fine, those can be important too) do it NOW so you can give people a hard time about how they react in real time.

The connection between the Google Talk client and the Google Talk server is encrypted, except when using Gmail's chat over HTTP, a federated network that doesn't support encryption, or when using a proxy like IMLogic.